This may be the origin of the now-canonical notion that Parker's blood is iteself radioactive. There's no reason it should be.

There's the little bit of wonky science from Stan and Steve in ASM #31 (Master Planner arc) where Aunt May apparently picked up a 'radioactive particle' in her blood. Peter comes to the conclusion that it's the result of his 'bad blood' from a blood transfusion he had given her earlier in the Ditko run (ASM #10, I think). That's the only time the subject comes up, and predates the cartoon series by at least a year. Not to put too fine a point on it but it's never followed up on after she is cured nor established that it actually was a result of the transfusion. Peter just assumes he's the cause. There's a tendency lately for Spider-man writers to amplify Peter's sense of responsibility to the point where his motto should be "With great guilt comes even greater neuroses".

I like to think "Listen bud, he's got radioactive blood" is a great rhyming lyric for a theme song. It may just be as simple as that.

Now I'm having flashbacks to that horrible Spider-Man ripoff of "The Dark Knight Returns" where an elderly Peter Parker is mourning the loss of Mary Jane, to whom he inadvertently gave cancer through years of exposure to his radioactive semen. So much dumb.

Now I'm having flashbacks to that horrible Spider-Man ripoff of "The Dark Knight Returns" where an elderly Peter Parker is mourning the loss of Mary Jane, to whom he inadvertently gave cancer through years of exposure to his radioactive semen. So much dumb.

Started watching these episodes again myself, within the past week or two...

They're too crude, and I'm too old, for them to hold my entire attention, so I tend to run the eps as TV background noise, while I'm working at home (only 2 days during the week)... though I've long outgrown this series, and they may even be deemed as "kids' stuff" by my 7-year old son, I have to admit, that first season (at least) is fairly faithful to the comics... and even cleverly written at times.

I found myself laughing out loud (in a good way) at some of the dialogue more than once!

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